Our mission is to promote student success through evidence-based science education. The University of Oregon Science Literacy Program (SLP) makes a real-world difference in the lives of UO students by building science literacy among undergraduate students, giving science students mentored teaching opportunities […]

Winter term we will read Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning. Lang, J. M. (2016). Small teaching: Everyday lessons from the science of learning. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. You can purchase a copy of the book or an electronic copy is available free […]

The Science Literacy Program has grown tremendously since it was founded in 2010. Last year, nearly 20% of undergraduate students participated in an SLP-affiliated course. The SLP works with faculty instructors, graduate fellows, and undergraduate scholars to improve pedagogy and science communication […]

OUR MISSION IS TO SUPPORT STUDENT

SUCCESS THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF

EXCELLENT SCIENCE TEACHERS.

Journal Club

The Science Literacy Teaching Journal Club invites you to participate in our seventh year of weekly gatherings! The journal club is a cooperative effort of the Teaching Engagement Program and the Science Literacy Program. Meetings feature lively, structured discussions across discipline and rank with small-scale teaching experiments. Participants from all disciplines are invited to join the whole series or stop by for a specific conversation.

This fall we will focus on approaches for teaching large classes. In Spring 2016 TEP sponsored a series of events on making the big class feel small and our journal club conversations will continue the conversation.

Interested in how science gets communicated to broad audiences? Want to hone your science communication skills? Register for Science Talk NW, a 2-day science communication conference January 26-27, 2017, at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, OR sponsored in part by UO Science Literacy Program and Washington State University at Vancouver.

The Science Literacy Program can support registration fees for the entire conference for some UO graduate students and postdocs who will participate in the Science Communication Contest. Please email Elly Vandegrift (ellyvan@uoregon.edu) for more information.

SABER (Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research) West will be held at the University of California, Irvine on January 14th and 15th, 2017. The goals of the meeting are to disseminate exciting STEM education research and to gain skills related to conducting discipline-based education research and implementing evidence-based teaching practices. There will be an explicit focus on fostering collaborations with colleagues from other campuses, especially the community college system.

We are delighted to announce The POGIL Project’s first National Conference for Advanced POGIL Practitioners (NCAPP): Expand, Engage, Empower, to be heldJune 26-28, 2017 at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA.NCAPP is designed for POGIL practitioners to gather together and share ideas, challenges and struggles regarding the use of POGIL in their classrooms. Participants will come away with new ideas for POGIL activities as well as new strategies for implementing POGIL. Our goal is to Expand, Engage and Empower…

You’re Invited to the 6th Annual SPICE! Science Open House 2016
Date: October 5th, 2016, 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Willamette Hall on the UO Campus
The Science Program to Inspire Creativity and Excellence (SPICE) and UO STEM CORE will hold the 6th annual “Science Open House” October 5th, 2016 in the Willamette Hall Atrium (6:30pm-8:30pm) on the University of Oregon (UO) campus.